[oe] OE Booth during fosdem
Jim Thompson
jim at netgate.com
Thu Feb 15 01:02:04 UTC 2007
On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:17 PM, gerwin van der kruis wrote:
> Op woensdag 14-02-2007 om 12:53 uur [tijdzone -1000], schreef Jim
> Thompson:
>
>> And I'm willing to throw cash, hardware and time at this.
>>
>> Yes, we sell WRAP boards, but I'm not looking to get a bunch-o-free
>> development out of the process. (We sell a Gateworks ixp42x board
>> too, just to be perfectly honest.)
>>
>> Years ago, I ran (and owned) 'musenki' (google for it or look here:
>> http://he-colo.netgate.com/~jim/Musenki/. We had build a set of
>> Motorola 8245/8241 boards, and I'd made linux run on them. I
>> remember spending a horrific amount of time with a (very) early
>> version of "buildroot". OE is so much more sophisticated that I'm a
>> bit taken aback.
>>
>> The OE learning curve is still quite steep, but I think it would be
>> less steep with a) a bit more documentation and b) an EZ way to start
>> creating "little distros" that
>> run on PCs using it.
>
> I remember we had this discussion before , the problem is the
> bootloader, for example grub requires some extra handlings to get
> installed probarly.
There appears to be a decent start on "here are the set of steps"
here: http://kbarr.net/bochs
(I've only recently discovered this.)
> I also experimented a bit with disk on modules which were much
> faster than the compact flash and much cheaper as well.
Its hard to beat $9 (what we pay for 128MB CF), but if you know of a
source, I'm all ears.
> I think if you write a script which automate the installation of for
> example grub and than copies automatically the files over to cf you
> are
> finished , I did it once long time ago for an embedded voip pabx.
I once made 'lilo' work with a buildroot-based system. The makefile
is attached.
I never could get 'grub' to do the same thing, though I prefer grub
to lilo.
> As Koen said I am working on x86 projects like wifi-radio (with a
> mini-itx board and some small additions) a set top box and a thin
> client.So we are working on it !!
Is the wifi-radio tree available anywhere?
> I will have a look if I still can find the software I made that time
> for putting the image directly on the flash (I wrote it to produce
> some
> goods)
thanks
Jim
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